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The Sooner Corral
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History: The Sooner Corral hasn't always been what it is today. Originally the 160 acre property was purchased in 1907 by Jaret Martin and a private residence was built. It then remained a private residence for 52 years and during that time changed hands 10 times. The building that now sits on the property, also known as the Sooner Corral was built somewhere between 1948 and 1952. Historical records are a bit conflicting on the exact dates that the building was built and its original use was not listed other than as a residence. It wasn't until March 8, 1960 that it was purchased by William A. Mays Sr. who registered the building as a pub business and named it the Westerneer Ballroom. It remained the Westerneer Ballroon until October 28, 1994 when it was purchased by Richard Mays and renamed The Silver Dollar Saloon. It remained the Silver Dollar Saloon until May 18, 1998 when it was purchased by it's current owner and at some point renamed, "The Sooner Corral."
There has been many thoughts as to why the Sooner Corral is haunted and some of the staff has stated that they believe a young girl died in the ladies bathroom of a drug overdose but upon researching the property, we have found no such claims listed. There is also said to have been a young man which was in an altercation behind the Sooner Corral and he was supposedly stabbed to death but we could find no records to confirm this claim. The Investigation A few members of our
group went up to the Sooner Corral to visit with the owner and while
there, we witnessed a few odd things. Up We arrived at the investigation early in the morning hours after the bar closed and was assisted by one of the main staff personnel during our investigation there at the corral. It seemed like whenever we were in an area of the building we would hear movement and audible voices coming from the opposite area from where we were at. Several members heard an audible voice coming from the men's bathroom and so when individual sweeps were being done, one of the teams heard an audible voice say "get out." This intrigued them so they proceeded to go into the men's bathroom to see if they could find the source of the sound. While asking about the vocal "get out" their audio recorder picked up a voice which said, "Hey they can't hear us, hey!"
Behind
the stage area there seemed to be quiet a bit of activity taking place
and many of the investigators claimed to feel very uncomfortable behind
there. A couple of the staff members also complained that
they felt very uncomfortable around the back stage area and stated that
many people also complain of the same thing. One staff member
claimed that it could have been because of the old tunnels that used to
be open under the stage area. The current owner
One of the strangest things is that the bar seemed to be quite active until around 4am and then everything seemed to go very quiet including the feelings of being watched and then the audible voices that were heard throughout the bar. Our group was informed by the staff that sometimes the that does happen at the corral but then things would come back again the next night and that they pretty much experienced activity on a regular basis there. The total time of the activity that our group witnessed was around 1.5 hours and then everything went quiet. Even though our investigative time was long but short, we feel like the Sooner Corral has some mild paranormal activity taking place.
Prior to me
investigating this place, I had a chance to speak with the owners of the Sooner
Corral and I had
There also seemed to be a couple of more spirits present there in the corral that did not wish to come forward and give any information about themselves. One was a female and the other was another male in his thirties that watched us while we were there, but they did not come in close to us.
Evidence Collected
Photographs: There was only 1 positive photo taken from this investigation.
Video: There was no positive Video Clips recorded from this location Evp: There were 15 evps recorded from this investigation.
"Hey
they can't hear us, hey"
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September
2008
Our group has
conducted interviews with the current owners and with the staff of the
Sooner Corral, all who have stated they have witnessed strange activity
taking place within the saloon. The owners and staff believe they
have at least 3=4 resident ghosts who they have nicked named. One
of them they believe to be an old cowboy whom they have nicked named
Griz. They say Griz has a unique personality and whenever he wants
them to know something he lets them know by acting out. He has
been known to expect a beer left on the bar counter for him every night
and he has been known to throw a few things around when he gets upset.
in the top area of the Sooner Corral there is an executive room where
objects have been known to move on their own and audible voices have
been heard in the men's bathroom. While our group was in this room
and while speaking with the owner, we heard movement by the area of the
bathrooms and then one of our members heard an audible voice grunt at
him in the men's bathroom. 
Psychic Investigator's
Comments: 
told them that I had picked up on a metal olive colored metal
box that was buried years ago in one of the tunnels up by the stage area.
I let him know that inside the box were important papers/documents and other
items of value. The owner confirmed that they had indeed found a
metal box which matched that description and that they did not know what was
inside it because it was stolen by one of their x-employees. I also felt
like the stage area held a bit of negative energy and when I went behind the
back side of it, myself and another investigator saw a tall black shadow which
looked like a man around 6.5-7 feet in height. We thought that perhaps
this might have been the spirit that the owner and staff called "Griz" because
we had been told that he often appeared with the same type of appearance when
others had seen him in the past. Shortly afterwards into our investigation
is where one of the investigators captured a photograph of a strange green light
anomaly. We looked for a reflective surface that could have caused the
green light anomaly but we couldn't find one and something else strange about it
was that you can see the green light anomaly in front of and behind the
investigator. This back stage area seemed to be one of the more active
areas for our team during our investigation.
One
of the other areas that seemed to be very active for me was the right
area of the building which was located just right of the stage.
This is where I heard an audible "hey" and I also connected with a young
male in his twenties who stated he had been stabbed to death by a man
who had robbed him and he wanted to find out who this man was so he
could take his revenge. I am unsure if this young was the voice we
got on audio which said, "Hey" however I do know that he followed us
around for a short period of time before disappearing. This is
also the area which is beside the men's bathroom which is where our
group heard several audible voices including another one which stated,
